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• Jamila Fadhlaoui
• Tom Morgan
• @sarasherwood.bsky.social
• @jobardsley.bsky.social
• Mel Eagles
• Liam Nolan
• Michelle Penny
• Cadi Cliff

Featuring work by:
• Jude Rogers
• Tiffany Murray
• @francescasobande.bsky.social
• Sophie Calon
• Crystal Jeans
• Natsuki Koyata (古谷田 奈月)
• @arthurreiji.bsky.social
• Gosia Buzzanca

Issue 003: Undersong | Out 13.09

Something is rekindled in the grainy late-night livestreams of the Eras Tour. A fisherman wakes to sing back the dead. A disillusioned thirtysomething finds solace in piano renditions of the Beatles.

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Happy pub day to Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett’s 'The Republic of Parenthood'! 🎉

We spoke with Rhiannon for 'This Writing Life' about writing with a toddler, the 'swimming and thinking' stage, and a dreamy ideal writing day in the South of France.

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Passionate about brilliant writing and keen to support emerging talent? Want to be part of the Folding Rock story? We’re inviting applications to join our Advisory Board. Apply by 14 Sept.

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The sun is shining, the sky is blue, and it's pub day for Issue 002 of Folding Rock ☀️

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Books in the Window: Summer 2025 – Folding Rock A shop-front round-up of summer book recommendations - with Lily Baron at Book Space Cardiff

Your summer reading sorted - Lily from @bookspacecardiff.bsky.social on what's coming out that she would recommend 📚

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Submissions Session | Event Recording – Folding Rock Meet Folding Rock editors Robert Harries and Kathryn Tann, and find out more about submitting to the magazine.

Writers: if you missed our submissions session on Monday, you can now watch it back online - to find out more about how we roll, from editors @rjph91.bsky.social and @kathryntann.bsky.social
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Submit by 23.59 on 18 August 2025 to be considered for Issue 003.

But that's not all – we've also announced the themes for Issues 004 and 005 in our new and improved submission guidelines (for those planners among you) and added an FAQ page to the website to answer some common submission questions.

Whether you’re an expert in whale song or a storyteller inspired by rhythm, whether you want to explore the poetics of 90s rap or to reminisce about nursery rhymes, we want to hear it. Think outside the (music) box – send us your best words.

ISSUE 003 SUBMISSION WINDOW NOW OPEN

For our autumn issue, we’re keeping an ear out for all kinds of music, sound and melody. 🔊🎶🎧🎸🥁

Writing is Easy! – Folding Rock Award-winning journalist Ceri Jackson on the harsh reality of completing her true crime debut, The Boy from Tiger Bay.

"Who the hell did I think I was? This was sacred territory I had no business encroaching onto..."

Journalist Ceri Jackson writes about the harsh reality of completing her true crime debut, The Boy From Tiger Bay - free to read on our website today:
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Review Essay: A Wilderness of Unperishable Glory – Folding Rock Eluned Gramwich explores the walking literature of Wales in three new non-fiction titles.

Thanks to Folding Rock magazine @foldingrockmag.bsky.social for the review of Seascape - and in its first issue to boot. @calonbooks.bsky.social

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Folding Rock 002: Speak to Me – Folding Rock Featuring new work from writers including Horatio Clare, Emma Glass, Manon Steffan Ros and Ania Card. The multitude of languages we use to communicate, be they spoken or non-verbal, are arguably the m...

Featuring words from:

Manon Steffan Ros
Greg Flynn
Beth Preece
@amygrandvoinet.bsky.social
Yasmin Zaher
Horatio Clare
Grug Muse
@aniacard.bsky.social
Liz Churchill
Hannah Dafforn
Natalie Ann Holborow
Emma Glass
Maya Jordan

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Cover reveal for Issue 002: Speak to Me

Design by @needledesign.bsky.social

Edited by Kathryn Tann and Rob Harries

Writers at Work: Rhys Thomas – Folding Rock The first interview in our series spotlighting this year's Hay Festival Writers at Work. Journalist and fiction writer Rhys Thomas tells us what makes him tick as an emerging writer, what his creative...

"Nothing else feels like a way in which I can go through life and feel satisfied"

For the first interview in our series spotlighting this year’s @hayfestival.bsky.social Writers at Work, we caught up with journalist and fiction writer @rhysthomas.bsky.social

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Thanks so much for your support! 🩷

Hay Festival Picks: The Welsh Edition – Folding Rock A round-up of some of the brilliant Welsh writers appearing at Hay Festival 2025.

It's officially Hay month! So of course we've rounded up some of the Welsh authors and events we’re excited to see this year at @hayfestival, and which are still available to book.

Will we see you there?

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Welsh literary magazine Folding Rock's founders Rob Harries and Kathryn Tann on what led them to launch a new periodical

ICYMI: Rob Harries and @kathryntann.bsky.social, founders of new Welsh literary magazine @foldingrockmag.bsky.social, outline their ambitions to develop and celebrate the country’s writers 👇 #BookSky

2 weeks to go until our next event: An Evening with Folding Rock at MagCulture

Expect good company and exclusive merch, plus insights into our plans for the future from editors and co-founders and readings from contributors including @joedunthorne.bsky.social

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Folding Rock presents Issue 001 at The National Library of Wales – Folding Rock We're headed to Aberystwyth for an evening of readings and conversation - join us online or in person!

📢 Tomorrow evening! 📢
There are still some tickets available if you want to join us and some brilliant authors in Aberystwyth tomorrow - with drinks, readings, and new magazine merch too...
See ya there folks 👋
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Dylan Thomas Prize 2025 Spotlight: Meet the Shortlist – Folding Rock Learn more about the six nominated authors and their incredible titles.

Following last week's 2025 #SUDTP25 shortlist announcement, we're delighted to profile the six outstanding authors! @jonathancape.bsky.social @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social @4thestatebooks.bsky.social @wearefootnote.bsky.social

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*Gardening came to me like a language. Instinctively we cultivated a small piece of left-behind earth, built a polytunnel and started to grow. That first year, every seed we sowed grew. It was tropical. It was my first time experiencing the journey through the seasons as a grower - travelling through space and time, playing with heat, light and water - the miracle of what can be achieved when you have all three, soil, and a packet of seeds? MARI HUWS JONES, 'THE CENTRE OF THINGS' FOLDING ROCK ISSUE 001

It's officially the first day of Spring - which feels like the perfect day to share this gorgeous little excerpt from Mari Huws Jones' 'The Centre of Things'

May all the seeds you sow this year grow as wildly! 🌷🌻

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One more thing: if you're starting any of our subscriptions with Issue 002, you can add Issue 001: Roots to your basket and get free postage using the code ROOTSFREEPOSTAGE at checkout!

A mere smile can, at times, reveal more than the most epic of soliloquies, while at others, a whisper can be deafening.

If you'd like to see your name on the contents page, you can submit your work for consideration before April 11. Get writing! foldingrock.com/submit-your-... /3

The multitude of languages we use to communicate, be they spoken or non-verbal, are arguably the most integral – and human – elements of our social existence. Languages define cultures, and their mastery can unite or sow discord within whole civilisations. /2

Folding Rock 002: Speak to Me – Folding Rock The multitude of languages we use to communicate, be they spoken or non-verbal, are arguably the most integral – and human – elements of our social existence. Languages define cultures, and their mast...

Issue 002 of Folding Rock, SPEAK TO ME, is available for pre-order, both as a standalone issue and to begin your subscription with! /1

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